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Posted: 9/30/2004 12:46:37 AM EDT

[#1]

Thanks for keeping us updated, Jeff! We do appreciate it. Keep comin' with those pics!

Posted: 9/30/2004 1:12:59 AM EDT

[#2]

Wow!

Stay safe first and foremost.

Second thank you is an understatement, but the sentiment indeed.

Third, keep that 3rd eye going 24X7.

Thanks for the full in country briefing. I had never heard about the Turks in IQ. Interesting indeed.

Last, what is the normal daily temp?? High & low. Or does it just get so damn hot that the temp is..."Hot"!

Thanks again & cant wait for you to get back home man!

[salute]

Posted: 9/30/2004 1:18:47 AM EDT

[#3]

Still need that Benchmade???

Stay safe!

Posted: 9/30/2004 1:56:35 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Good luck, what happened to your face in all the pix?

(i.e. tagged)

Thats what happens when a camel spider bites you.

Posted: 9/30/2004 10:40:59 PM EDT

[#5]

Thanks for all the good wishes, gents. There's no need to thank me at all. I'm doing a very satisfying job and working for a great company. The opportunity to be here, heavily and well armed, with some great people, with an opportunity to possibly smoke some dirtbags who desperately need smoking in furtherance of US foreign policy goals... I feel pretty lucky to be here, really.

No problems at all with my rifle or any of the others here.

I'm sure it was just a joke, but my face is edited out for OPSEC reasons. No need to make me or my teammates more of a target than we already are.

My third eye is on threat scan at all times.

Daily temps range from a low in the high 70s at night to a high of 110 during the day.

AZ-K9: Check IM.

I haven't seen any camel spiders here, but a soldier got bitten by a blunt nosed viper the other day.

Posted: 9/30/2004 11:02:28 PM EDT

[#6]

Good hunting, watch yer six!

Posted: 9/30/2004 11:21:53 PM EDT

[#7]

Very good to hear from you, Jeff. You and your friends stay safe over there.

Posted: 10/1/2004 5:57:25 AM EDT

[#8]

Today was a nice low key day. No big moves, so we all went to the range. We confirmed our zeroes and did some movement, transition drills and vehicle drills.

The chief bodyguard of a prominent local official was kidnapped and murdered today.

Posted: 10/1/2004 6:03:54 AM EDT

[#9]

Let me just add a big old +1 to all
of the sentiments expressed thusfar.

Good luck. Stay safe.

Posted: 10/1/2004 6:06:23 AM EDT

[#10]

Stay safe, Jarhead. Looking forward to hearing that your mission is over, fully accomplished, and that you are home again.

Posted: 10/1/2004 6:24:16 AM EDT

[#11]

Dang man! When did you go back down-range?

(I can't believe I just saw this thread. I need to keep up with the DFW crew better.)

Stay safe.

Posted: 10/1/2004 6:25:53 AM EDT

[#12]

Stay safe my crusader brother!

Good to hear from you. Let your buds know if you need anything.
We can send what ever you may need. Prayers sent up weekly
for you and your wife. Take care.

Posted: 10/1/2004 6:36:30 AM EDT

[#13]

Keep safe Jarhead. Maybe my cousin in Al Asad will provide cover for you someday. He is a crew chief on an AH-53. His early X-mas gift is going to be a Chris Reeve Project II.

Posted: 10/1/2004 6:38:02 AM EDT

[#14]

Thank you for what you are doing over there.

I thank God there are Americans left who will put their money where there mouth is.
Godspeed jarhead....

here's some amazing pics from that site. Everyone needs to see this stuff on the nightly news.
They are pretty rough (ie... lots of dead people) remind me of Soviet pictures to me.

www.krg.org/reference/halabja/images/pic04.jpg

www.krg.org/reference/halabja/images/pic09.jpg

www.krg.org/reference/halabja/images/pic12.jpg

www.krg.org/reference/halabja/images/pic02.jpg

Posted: 10/1/2004 10:07:25 AM EDT

[#15]

Yo buddy, TRG ,Psyren, and myself were staring into a fire pit this weekend and we really needed you to tell us if that fire was hot.

Posted: 10/1/2004 2:13:42 PM EDT

[#16]

Take care over there!!

Posted: 10/1/2004 9:50:01 PM EDT

[#17]

Thanks again for all the good wishes from everyone.

bigsapper: I finally got on my way here in late August.

ilikelegs: There are some guys on my team here who make you and I look like moderates.

hound: I've found that fire is hot over here, too. See the first picture on page one of this thread.

I wonder if they'll let me bring some on the plane??

Posted: 10/1/2004 10:06:37 PM EDT

[#18]

I heard the C.O. of my old squadron HMM-161 (CH-46E doin' a evac) was hit pretty bad in sadar city.

Semper Gumby Jarhead22! My prayers are with you and your partners tonight.

Posted: 10/1/2004 10:12:26 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I haven't seen this report in the mainstream news media and probably won't, but we should remain those Saddam sympathizers and his minions that Saddam & Co have committed mass murder and other atrocitie and must answer for it. If the USA didn't stand up to Saddam no one would, and we won't find out the actual horrors until all of this BS is just faint memories in many sheeples' minds.

5k dead immediately with more to follow, according to local sources. In the memorial building, there were twenty or thirty pictures of the mass dead laying in the street in what used to be the town.

The first link that Google returned from a search on halabja: www.krg.org/reference/halabja/index.asp

JH, keep safe.....all of us armchair generals are pullin for ya!

If you are in need of anything, let us know.....

Posted: 10/2/2004 2:10:05 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Stay safe, Jarhead. Looking forward to hearing that your mission is over, fully accomplished, and that you are home again.

ditto that, I can't wait for the after action stories...

Posted: 10/2/2004 5:20:20 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
ilikelegs: There are some guys on my team here who make you and I look like moderates.

How many liberals total????

Posted: 10/2/2004 8:02:33 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
How many liberals total????

That's one of the great things about this gig: there's no room or time for mushy-headed relativism or earnest hand-wringing. In other words, no liberals. Just very serious people who are intent on getting our job done and ALL OF US surviving the experience and going home as scheduled. People who know their priorities and are prepared to move heaven and earth to accomplish the mission in furtherance of US foreign policy.

We have a mixture of Oohrah, Hooyah and Hooah here, but no Kumbaya at all.

Posted: 10/2/2004 8:38:12 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
We have a mixture of Oohrah, Hooyah and Hooah here, but no Kumbaya at all.

My vote for the next best sig line to date!

Posted: 10/2/2004 9:54:14 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Quoted:
We have a mixture of Oohrah, Hooyah and Hooah here, but no Kumbaya at all.

My vote for the next best sig line to date!

Thanks.

It just came to me.

Posted: 10/2/2004 10:51:50 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
We Have a mixture of Oohrah, Hooyah and Hooah here, but no Kumbaya at all.

Posted: 10/3/2004 2:10:18 AM EDT

[#26]

A scenic little spot that Sadaam had built for folks he was not crazy about. He built it up north to house folks from the south, that way they wouldn't know anyone in the area and couldn't expect any help if they managed to escape.

Posted: 10/3/2004 10:07:41 AM EDT

[#27]

cute, looks like several rooms were available as well.........................

Posted: 10/3/2004 10:38:01 AM EDT

[#28]

I didn't see the "No Vacancy" sign lit up as I drove by at 150km/h.

Posted: 10/3/2004 10:40:37 AM EDT

[#29]

oh great, now i've got to go convert that or it'll bother me all day.....................

Posted: 10/4/2004 10:24:42 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
oh great, now i've got to go convert that or it'll bother me all day.....................

Convert it to what? Rubble?

No worries on that score...it looks to be collapsing anyway.

Posted: 10/4/2004 10:43:59 PM EDT

[#31]

Stay safe, Jarhead. You sacrifice that of which many "kumbyah" motherfuckers know nothing about. My prayers are with you. My Department is behind you, all the way!

Posted: 10/5/2004 6:10:52 AM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
Quoted:
oh great, now i've got to go convert that or it'll bother me all day.....................

Convert it to what? Rubble?

No worries on that score...it looks to be collapsing anyway.

no, you commited one of the cardinal sins....................you used the metric system!!!!!!!!!

Posted: 10/5/2004 12:01:17 PM EDT

[#33]

We Have a mixture of Oohrah, Hooyah and Hooah here, but no Kumbaya at all.

This made me laugh

, good luck to you and come home safe!!

Posted: 10/5/2004 8:18:45 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
no, you commited one of the cardinal sins....................you used the metric system!!!!!!!!!

Well, that's how it reads on the speedometer. It's about 94mph.

Posted: 10/15/2004 12:47:17 AM EDT

[#35]

We've been trading quite a bit of paint with the locals on the demolition derby that is the driving environment here. It looks like things will only be getting worse now that Ramadan has kicked off. Better trading paint than rounds though, huh?

Some jackass in Baghdad got into a secured area yesterday and set off a suicide bomb, killing four DynCorp PSD guys and injuring a soldier. It sounds like more dog handlers are needed down there. It's amazing to see a bomb dog at work, and I sleep very well knowing they're out there when I'm in the rack.

No orange jumpsuits.

Posted: 10/15/2004 1:16:06 AM EDT

[#36]

They have civie dogs working?

ChaChing!

Posted: 10/15/2004 1:47:02 AM EDT

[#37]

Hey
If you get over to Taji/Camp Cooke come look me up.

I work on the Iraqi side at the EPSS compound.

Robert

Posted: 10/15/2004 4:27:12 AM EDT

[#38]

bump

Thanks and stay safe

Posted: 10/15/2004 4:43:45 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
We've been trading quite a bit of paint with the locals on the demolition derby that is the driving environment here. It looks like things will only be getting worse now that Ramadan has kicked off. Better trading paint than round though, huh?

Some jackass in Baghdad got into a secured area yesterday and set off a suicide bomb, killing four DynCorp PSD guys and injuring a soldier. It sounds like more dog handlers are needed down there. It's amazing to see a bomb dog at work, and I sleep very well knowing they're out there when I'm in the rack.

No orange jumpsuits.

I was IM'ing a friend who lives in the GZ last night, his company had that particular place off limits for a few weeks, there was an IED pulled out of there four or five weeks ago and another one found there before that that didn't go off.

Posted: 10/15/2004 6:05:26 AM EDT

[#40]

Didn't things actually slack off some last year during Ramamdan?

GunLvr

Posted: 10/15/2004 6:47:06 AM EDT

[#41]

JarHead.......

Great post s and information.......

Stay Safe.....Gods Speed

Posted: 10/21/2004 11:00:03 AM EDT

[#42]

We recently went to an IDP --Internally Displaced Persons-- camp. The area where we're based is oil-rich, and Sadaam forcibly moved out a bunch of Kurds who had lived there and moved Arabs in in their places back in the 1970s. Then when we started putting the boots to Sadaam's ass here recently, the Kurds started coming back home. The Arabs saw the handwriting on the wall --or were told flat out what's what-- and headed out. Now that Kurds are back in these wrecked places, they want someone to come and dig them wells and build them medical facilities and give them seeds and farming implements.

Posted: 10/21/2004 6:34:04 PM EDT

[#43]

Thanks for the report!

Glad to know you are still using up oxygen!

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